1) Service account under which the Central Admin site’s Application pool is running should have ‘DB Creator’ and ‘SecurityAdmin’ rights.

Note: These permission are important other wise configuration of Search Service will fail with SQL Exception “User does not have permission”. I was able to resolve this by referring this great post.Click

Steps to be followed on Application Server

1) Log into Application Server using user/service account who is a member of Admin Group on the box.

2) Click on EXE “searchserverexpress.exe”.

3) A dialogue box will appear as shown in below picture.

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4) Next, click on “install software prerequisite

5) After all prerequisite are installed, a dialogue box will appear on status of each components whether those are installed or not. Please make sure to read the full list before going ahead.

16) Then IE will pop up and direct user to Central Administration page asking “How do you want to configure your SharePoint farm?” Click “Cancel” button as We will manually configure the search Service.

17) Restart and reboot the SharePoint Application server.

Note:Please note that installer will identify the role of application server, based on that it will deploy services accordingly

Verification of Installation.

To verify whether everything is installed properly

1) Open Central Admin Site and Click on Manage Services on Server from “System Setting” heading.

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